Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!trevorc
From: trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Is your battery REALLY necessary?
Message-ID: <5448.26080b81@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 90 04:17:20 GMT
Organization: Nuclear Medicine, U. Western Ontario, Canada
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I am interested in discovering how many laptoppers actually use the battery 
feature of their machines.  I have a Zenith Z-181 which has the battery 
built in so that, even with the power pack, the battery must be toted 
around.  I also have a SuperSport 286 from which the battery can be 
detached and that is the way it is always operated.  I claim that one is 
VERY rarely far from a power source and that the battery is just extra 
ballast.  Do others share that opinion and are there any models that do not 
have batteries but expect to be close to either 110 or 220 volts?

If you wish to answer to my e-mail address I will summarize the responses 
rather than clutter up the list.
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Trevor Cradduck,                |  Phone: (519) 667-6574     
Department of Nuclear Medicine, |  FAX: (519) 667-6734
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